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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This one goes in the listener-comment Hall of Fame ❤️

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[Comment from REDACTED]: I ship Thom and Nina ever episode when they do something cute even though I know they are married.

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Thom Coffyn @mecha-tho.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Every once in a while on Mobile Suit Breakdown we get a complaint from a new listener that we don't spend much time breaking down the mobile suits themselves. Well, buddy have I ever got the podcast for you!

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Thom Coffyn @mecha-tho.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Come listen to me and the lovely folks at Mechanista in G (@sixdettmar.bsky.social and @lowpolyrobot.bsky.social) as we get into the details on the weird, wonderful, and worryingly W I D E mechs of Gundam Proceed scanlinemedia.com/2026/07/29/m...

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Mechanista in G – Gundam Proceed Grab Bag – Scanline Media

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Thom Coffyn @mecha-tho.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

me when you start listening to @lydiadisappears.bsky.social

An imitation of the Sickos comic panel in which a black bird labeled "SICK CROWS" looks through a window toward the viewer, saying "YES... CAW CAW CAW... YES!"

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Finish your journey with a cruise of the Nile, and relax in comfort as the shore's lush banks, ruined temples, and quaint villages slide by... And join us next time when we visit the beautiful city of Istanbul, as we follow the Gundam Fight to Turkey!

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Top: Screenshot from the anime G Gundam, episode 10. Panorama of a village on the Nile. Low rectangular buildings, palm trees, sailboats on the shore, a gibbous moon hangs over the mountains or dunes behind the settlement.

Middle Left: Photograph of two sailboats on the Nile. By Gardiner, David - Original source: De Guerville, A. B. "New Egypt." E.P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1906. p. 047. CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11512147

Middle Right: Drawing. 'The town of Foua, on the banks of the Nile'. The buildings, palm trees, and sailboats on the shore, echo the top screenshot. Wellcome Collection - CC BY 4.0, https://wellcomecollection.org/works/g8mv2gnd

Bottom: Photograph from approximately 1880 - 1889. Village by the Nile near Gizeh, Egypt. Low rectangular buildings and many palm trees. A pyramid is visible in the background. By G. Lekegian (1853-1920) - Public Domain, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=115430310

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

No visit to Egypt is complete without a visit to the Giza necropolis to see the pyramids and the Great Sphinx...

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Top: Screenshot from the anime G Gundam, episode 10. Panorama of Pyramids against the night sky. One on the left, two on the right (a larger one behind a much smaller one). The Great Sphinx left-of-center, surrounded by indistinct, low buildings.

Bottom: Photograph. A panorama of the Giza pyramid complex with three pyramids and the Great Sphinx visible. The pyramids are silhouetted against a dusk-sky, the horizon yellow. The relative sizes and positions of the visible pyramids and the sphinx are very similar to the screenshot above. Bottom: By Ahnaf Saber - CC BY 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71346715

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

For reasons of security during the Gundam Fight, you will not be able to see the latest Pharaoh Gundam (though rumors are flying that it has in fact already been destroyed under mysterious circumstances), however several replicas are on display at museums and tourist sites near the temple complex...

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Top: Screenshot from the anime G Gundam, episode 10. The Pharaoh Gundam, seated, with scepters held in its hands and its arms crossed over its chest. Three people sit on the ground at its feet.

Bottom Left: Coffin of Ramses II, photographed at the "Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs" exhibition at the Australian Museum, 2024. The held scepters and arm-position similar to the Gundam above. By Merytat3n - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=145483484

Bottom Right: Photograph from the set of The Mummy (film, 1932). A camera and several crewmembers are focused on an actor in the foreground, but in the background of the set is a seated pharaoh figure, posed similarly to the Pharaoh Gundam above. By Fred R. Archer, photographer - International Photographer, Volume 4, Number 10 (page 16), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51649801

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The interior of the tomb is a combination of ancient and contemporary aesthetics, the carved and painted decorations less dense but no less skillfully rendered, and a portrait of Dahal Muhammad (painted in oils) hanging above his heavy stone sarcophagus...

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Top: Screenshot from the anime G Gundam, episode 10. The interior of Dahal Muhammad's tomb. Figures and hieroglyphics painted on the walls, stone statues to the left and right, and a sarcophagus at the top of a short flight of stone steps. Above the sarcophagus, an large, framed portrait of Dahal.

Bottom: Photograph of the interior of the Tomb of Ramses IV in the Valley of the Kings on the West Bank of Luxor, Egypt. Every visible surface, including the ceiling, is carved and/or painted. A massive stone sarcophagus, also covered in carvings, dominates the center of the room.
Bottom: By Tim Adams - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85672168

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Rendered as Pharaohs, stone-carved Gundam stand guard over the tomb entrance, and pay homage to the Pharaoh Gundam lineage...

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Left: Screenshot from the anime G Gundam, episode 10. The facade of Dahal Muhammad's tomb. Two stone-carved, seated, Gundam-figures, adorned like ancient pharaohs, flank the entrance, and a smaller one is carved into the stone above the entry.

Center: Photograph of the facade of the Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel, the figures flanking and above the entry very similar to those in the left-hand screenshot. By Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=122647312

Top Right: Screenshot from the anime G Gundam, episode 10. Closeup of the head of one of the carved Gundam figures, showing the headdress, collar, and "beard" that typically adorn ancient Egyptian rulers in art.

Bottom Right: Close-up of the head of one of the carved figures at Abu Simbel, for comparison to the Gundam head pictured above. By Holger Uwe Schmitt - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=183019383

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Visit the tomb of Dahal Muhammad - Neo Egyptian Gundam Fighter and winner of the 3rd Gundam Fight - built in the ancient-Egyptian style...

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Top: Screenshot from the anime G Gundam, episode 10. Stone walls and a stone path lead up to a tomb. A figure in the style of a sarcophagus lid is carved into a near wall. At the end of the path, stairs lead to small entryway. The entrance is flanked by two figures carved into the larger structure.

Bottom: Photograph. The view of Abu Simbel Temple from Nefertari Temple. Massive standing and seated figures are carved into the stone, flanking two entrances. One nearer, on the right.

By Benjamin Inbar - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=134805322

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Ruined temples and columns topped with enigmatic sphinxes punctuate the vast and lonely sands...

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Top: Screenshot from the anime G Gundam, episode 10. Sand dunes in the background. In the foreground, at two distances (as though flanking a road or path), there are pillars topped with sphinxes.

Bottom: A photograph of one side of the Path of Sphinxes, from the Temple of Karnak at Luxor. A long row of sphinxes, all the same size and facing the same direction. The sphinxes are on short plinths.

Bottom: By fabgilfr - Allée des Sphynx temple de Karnak à Louxor, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78332700

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

There is no better way to take in the stark beauty of the desert dunes than riding a camel...

Collage of images.

Top left: Screencap from the anime G Gundam, episode 10. Four shadowed figures on camels ride through the desert toward the sun, which is half-above the horizon.

Right: Photograph of two riders on camelback, the camels being led by a third figure on foot. The desert is only sand dunes; the sky is grey.

By Zakaria alami m - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76861222

Bottom Left: A figure on camelback appears as a silhouette against an orange-red sky, the sun has just begun to dip below the horizon.

By Saptarshi Bagchi - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24012554

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

After a lamentably long delay, our G Gundam travel guides are back! It's time for MSB's Guide to Visiting Egypt during the 13th Gundam Fight ~ www.patreon.com/posts/msbs-g...

Image from the anime G Gundam, episode 10. A classic, horror-movie mummy stands at the top of a sand dune, silhouetted against a gibbous moon.

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On the Shoulders of Giants @osgpod.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM F91 ft @gundampodcast.bsky.social has been uploaded! Please come hang out with Thom and Nina for a rousing firehose blast of wholesome family dynamics on this ultracompressed ham and cheese Yoshiyuki Tomino sandwich!!! osgpod.com/posts/2026-0...

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Ep 0075 - Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991)

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Thom Coffyn @mecha-tho.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

cool, sure, why not

A screenshot of a news article about a pending deal between the United States government and the Ultimate Fighting Championship to use cage fights for diplomacy, contrasted with a picture of the Shining Gundam from G Gundam.

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Thom Coffyn @mecha-tho.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

um, they literally combined arms with legs to make gundam?

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Mark your calendars - MSB guest appearance on "On the Shoulders of Giants" Podcast, ✨️ June 6 ✨️, to talk about F91! Tune in for: ~ analysis! ~ mobile suit ratings! ~ hearing us be bad at trivia! ~ Thom doing bits! Check them out at osgpod.com or @osgpod.bsky.social for more info

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

PS: One of the reasons we were feeling so wrecked is that we had a 3-hour recording session as guests on another podcast 👀 We'll share more info once we know the release date for that episode!

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

With apologies for the late notice, there's no new episode this week* (the public feed will still get last week's episode, and will have a no-new-episode week next week). After some much-needed rest, both of us are feeling downright chipper, and excited to jump back into G Gundam next week!

Pixel-art of the Shokew mobile suit's head, wearing a headset. There's a speech-bubble coming off of it with sleepy "zzzzzz"s in it.

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Nina Gonzalez @ninagonzalez.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Ok but after making this I really want to go visit Niagara Falls… @mecha-tho.bsky.social 👀

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Nina Gonzalez @ninagonzalez.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

“Let’s watch all of Gundam”

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

For peaceful solitude, nothing beats a log cabin in the woods... And you'd better enjoy woods and mountains while you can! Next time we visit one of the great cities of the world, as we follow the Gundam Fight to London...

Image collage. The two images on the left are screenshots from the Mobile Fighter G Gundam anime, episode 8 - both depicting evergreen forests with shafts of sunlight cutting through the trees. The bottom image also shows a log cabin at the end of a path through the woods.
The two photographs on the right also show sunlight filtering through the woods, and the bottom right photo shows a log cabin.
Photo credits:
Top Right: Back cover of album "Merci" (1984) by Magma.

Bottom Right: By YellowstoneNPS - Cove Patrol Cabin: sunrise through the trees, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=170187870

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Across the continent, explore the rugged landscapes of the Rocky Mountains...

Image collage. The image on the left is a collage of screenshots from the Mobile Fighter G Gundam anime, episode 8 - depicting a panning shot of a mountain, evergreen forest, lake or river, and waterfall. The three images on the right are photographs of various locations around Kootenay National Park in BC, Canada, in the Canadian Rockies, including a distant photo of mountains, a lake or river with mountains on one side and forest on the other, and a waterfall flanked by forest.
Photo credits:
Top Right: By Tupungato, CC BY 2.5,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3568917

Middle Right: By Murray Foubister - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mfoubister/8466087727/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51744486

Bottom Right: By Elpoca at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39480447

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

You can also take a boat to the base of the falls, passing under the Niagara Falls International Rainbow Bridge (commonly known as the Rainbow Bridge)...

Image collage. The middle image on is a screenshot from the Mobile Fighter G Gundam anime, episode 8 - depicting a boat passing under a bridge. The top and bottom images are photographs of the Rainbow Bridge (near Niagara Falls), one from a similar angle to the screenshot from the show, one from farther away.
Photo credits:
Top: By DarkNight0917 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=143659828

Bottom: By Rhododendrites - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=132660367

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Walking paths and scaffolding mean that pedestrians can walk right down to the base of the falls, glorying in the roar and spray of the water...

Image collage. The two images on the top are screenshots from the Mobile Fighter G Gundam anime, episode 8, showing characters Rain and Domon on a metal walkway at the base of a waterfall. The bottom two images are photographs of a reddish metal walkway at the base of one of the Niagara Falls.
Photo credits:
Bottom Left: No machine-readable author provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=308096

Bottom Right: By Taxiarchos228 - Own work, FAL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18059293

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Our first stop, straddling the USA-Canada border, the breathtaking Niagara Falls...

Image collage. The three images on the left are screenshots from the Mobile Fighter G Gundam anime, episode 8 - all of a very large waterfall, from different angles. We think it's meant to be Niagara Falls, and the images on the right are all photographs of the falls, for comparison.
Phot credits:
Top Right: By Bob Collowan - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89938981

Middle Right: By Photo (c)2007 Helen Filatova - published at Free Photos, Maid of the Mist at Horseshoe Falls, CC BY 2.0, freefoto.ca, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3237106

Bottom Right: By Ethan Sahagun - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89023038

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Time for MSB to follow the Gundam Fight to Canada! Join us as we visit sites of sublime natural beauty, from Niagara Falls to the Rocky Mountains... buff.ly/uvRHMex

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Across the continent, explore the rugged landscapes of the Rocky Mountains...

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

You can also take a boat to the base of the falls, passing under the Niagara Falls International Rainbow Bridge (commonly known as the Rainbow Bridge)...

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Walking paths and scaffolding mean that pedestrians can walk right down to the base of the falls, glorying in the roar and spray of the water...

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Our first stop, straddling the USA-Canada border, the breathtaking Niagara Falls...

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Time for MSB to follow the Gundam Fight to Canada! Join us as we visit sites of sublime natural beauty, from Niagara Falls to the Rocky Mountains... buff.ly/uvRHMex

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

So far, our new co-host is more of a distraction than a help, but we’re sure it’s just a matter of training

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Thom Coffyn @mecha-tho.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I'm pleased to announce @gundampodcast.bsky.social is getting a new cohost! Everyone say hi to Mersey:

A photograph of a tawny, brown, black, and white cat looking suspiciously at the camera. She has a large, deep-black patch which covers her entire nose, the space between her eyes, and most of the middle of her forehead. The image has been annotated: four arrows labeled "cat" point to different parts of her body, while a fifth labeled "Vantablack (property of Anish Kapoor)" points to the black spot on her face.

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It's time for MSB's guide to visiting Mexico during the 13th Gundam Fight! Home of fan-favorite, the Tequila Gundam, there's lots to do and see - let us show you around ~ www.patreon.com/posts/msbs-g...

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Our Lt. Matilda patrons vote on each month's exclusive bonus episode! The past 2 months they've chosen "Nina's Revenge," where Nina is making Thom read a favorite series of hers: the Temeraire books by Naomi Novik. They just finished Book 2, and eligible subscribers can listen here: buff.ly/LXgnbST

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Salty Spacenoid🧂Charmuro consultant @saltyspacenoid.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I won't lie I am very proud of this illustration!!! I loved drawing Chara, please enjoy it! Thank you so much for asking me to design this card <3

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I just checked our list of follow requests but didn't see any accounts in there that looked like yours. Which @ would you like us to approve?

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Gundam ZZ Tarot: The Magician (Chara Soon) illustrated for Mobile Suit Breakdown by @saltyspacenoid.bsky.social

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Thom Coffyn @mecha-tho.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It's official, and everyone who said I was wrong about this is now legally required to apologize

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

G Companion #8 - once again, things get musical! For G Gundam episode 8, we listened to the 1985 album, "Merci," by French band Magma... www.patreon.com/posts/g-comp...

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

They write out the list of official regulations in the preview, behind-the-scenes episodes, and I should probably go read over them again, but within the show itself I don't think they've established what any particular fight an "official" Gundam Fight...

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Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast @gundampodcast.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

As is becoming a refrain during my G Gundam watch through, the rules are "ehhhh don't worry about it!"

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